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When it comes to recycling household rubbish, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is the tenth worst district in Britain. That’s according to an annual review of recycling published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), cited by basingstokegazette.co.uk, which shows the council ranked 343 out of 352 authorities in the UK due […]

It has been reported that recycling rates in Croydon have risen, croydonguardian.co.uk reports. The amount of rubbish placed into recycling bins in the area has risen by 10 per cent since the same period last year. This means that nearly half of the rubbish in the area is now recycled by residents. Talking about the boost […]

A recycling scheme set up in Northumberland could see locals not only bettering the environment but also a local school, topix.com reports. A UK-wide scheme has recently been announced by Kenco and TerraCycle in a bid to enable consumers to recycle waste from all brands of coffee packaging for the first time ever. Now, the […]

Couples have the highest rates of recycling, but women still outstrip men, a new study has found. Researchers from Essex University sought to discover which members of society were particularly good at recycling and which were not pulling their weight, iol.co.za reports. The results, which were compiled by quizzing some 5,000 British residents, found that 79 […]

People living in Fife are the best Scottish residents when it comes to recycling, according to new research. Figures published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) have indicated that 54 per cent of waste in the region was recycled in 2011. That puts it way above the national average of 40.1 per cent. Councillors […]

Fortnightly collections of non-recyclable waste is the way to get more people recycling, says Friends of the Earth. The charity showed support for this strategy after figures from the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs revealed that nine of the ten local councils with the best improvement in recycling rates over the past […]

Women are far better than men at recycling, according to a new poll. In a survey conducted by Essex University, 70 per cent of single women claimed they dumped as rubbish as they could in a recycle bin. Only 58 per cent of men said the same. Interestingly, 80 per cent of couples claimed they […]

The publication of statistics on “contaminated” recycled materials has led to criticism of local councils. According to telegraph.co.uk, the latest ‘Waste Data Flow’ report shows that the proportion of recycled material that has had to be rejected and sent to landfill sites has increased by 40 per cent in the past five years – it […]

A new recycling scheme that was introduced to the Wiltshire area has set the area on track to meet its 2014 targets, reports wiltshire.gov.uk. The measures, which were introduced by the Council at the start of the year, have seen the amount of garden waste, plastic bottles, and cardboard placed into recycling bins rise by […]

A Kent resident has welcomed a rule change at the city’s recycling facilities that had prompted her to alter her car. Beryl Wood, 63, ended up having to paint over the lettering on the side of her vehicle. She did this after being told by the household waste centre on Ross Way that she would […]

The world’s largest bottle recycling plant is set to expand, reports businessgreen.com. Operators of the facility, ECO Plastics, have raised £6 million from shareholders and its debt provider to further expand the site based in Hemswell, Lincolnshire in the coming year. The site, which processes 150 million tonnes of mixed plastics per year that have come from […]

Rubbish can be a “profit centre”, according to the husband-and-wife team who have started up a new online marketplace. The philosophy behind TradingWaste is to encourage firms to put their commercial waste into recycling bins, then sell the material – which might otherwise go to a landfill or waste-disposal firm – to organisations that can […]

Marks & Spencer’s has revealed it is to extend its clothes recycling initiative to UK workplaces. The ‘shwop’ scheme sees participants rewarded with M&S vouchers after they place unwanted clothes into recycling bins. The retailer has teamed up with charity Business In The Community to promote the scheme to over 4,000 firms. Companies who have already signed […]

Residents of a Scottish county have been urged to recycle their Christmas waste responsibly, reports eveningtimes.co.uk. Inverclyde Council has asked residents to make sure they place festive waste such as cards, certain wrapping paper, any empty selection boxes, festive catalogues and old calendars in the recycling bins provided. As well as that, the council said […]

Glaswegian homeowners will soon be asked to recycle their food waste as part of a new government scheme, local.stv.tv reports. An initial nine-month trial will see 47,000 homes tasked with recycling their food waste, before the scheme is rolled out across the rest of the city. The scheme’s success could go on to influence other local authorities across Scotland, […]